News organizations are increasingly crowd-sourcing using online survey tools like Google Forms to collect sources, data and their audiences’ experiences. Putting together a survey requires no programming or technical skills and best of all, the tools are mostly free. Presentation tools, such as Google Charts, Many Eyes and others allow you to then showcase your [...]
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Qik (pronounced ‘quick’) is a social network video service that allows users to record, upload and live-stream video from a mobile phone to the web through a mobile app. The service makes it remarkably easy to collect and post video at breaking news or scheduled events. The Qik app uses a phone’s built-in still camera [...]
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For small projects that hit big, rapid success can bring about as rapid a downfall – if a lack of organization hampers the ability to scale up to size. With that in mind, Susan Mernit, a long time local media expert and consultant working for The Oakland Local, has put together a highly useful overview [...]
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You’re out covering a story, working no differently than any professionally employed journalist, perhaps as an intern or for a class assignment. You’re upholding the same ethical standards, observing the same professional criteria, hoping to get published, broadcast or posted. Are you covered by the same legal protections as your professional colleagues? It depends. (I [...]
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‘Journalism in the Age of Visualization,’ produced by Geoff McGhee as part of his 2009-2010 John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University, is a must-see for journalists interested in data visualization and visual journalism more broadly. The seven-part video – an hour in total – along with the rich assortment of examples, resources and [...]
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For Interactive journalists, here’s HTML5 in a nutshell: HTML5 is the fifth iteration of HTML. HTML is the “predominant markup language for web pages.” It gives structure to text and media and, in conjunction with CSS, is the most common programming language used to present content for the Internet. When fully adopted, HTML5 could dramatically [...]
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When community members are first asked to contribute to The Local, they’re always excited by the opportunity to see their work published on the NYTimes.com. Converting that initial enthusiasm to actual submissions, however, is a challenge. Whether we’re looking for one-offs contributions or trying to develop an ongoing relationship with someone in the community, the [...]
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Every so often a tool comes along that every multimedia journalist should know about. Cover it Live is one of those tools. This easy-to-use, embeddable live-blogging program allows users to cover speeches, sports and other events in real time. And, the basic package is completely free. To host an event the user (or users) need [...]
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The charming blip-bleep of a Flipcam springing to life makes it seems like we can film anything. And we can. This little machine has given everyone the ability to capture a clip and add video (and multimedia) to their stories. They’ve also given everyone the ability to capture their roommate making pizza or their turtle [...]
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This year marks the 20th anniversary of Adobe Photoshop. As if to celebrate, last week Adobe released Creative Suite 5, the most powerful version yet, and for photojournalism maybe the most troubling. Photoshop remains the top photo editing and graphics program for pros. Among the newest version’s most notable features is the Content-aware Fill Tool, [...]
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